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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Stefanie Gänger (Universität Heidelberg)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Dimensions: Width: 23.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 16.00cm Weight: 0.510kg ISBN: 9781108842167ISBN 10: 110884216 Pages: 300 Publication Date: 15 October 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviews'Building on extensive research in archives and libraries across various continents, A Singular Remedy follows the pathways of how cinchona and the stories and practices associated with it travelled and were shared across epistemic systems, medical traditions, tastes, social divides, and religious beliefs.' Miruna Achim, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City 'Almost half a century ago, the great French historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie alerted us to the 'microbal unification of the world'. That lesson has been brought home to drastic effect during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. In her learned and sparkling study of the global career of cinchona, Stefanie Ganger tells a counter-story: the unification of much of the world through a 'singular' medicinal substance.' Jurgen Osterhammel, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies 'Ganger follows cinchona down an astonishing range of paths, demonstrating that this was a quintessentially global product of the age of revolutions, but nevertheless keeps the Andes and its forests, peoples and coercive labour regimes in central view. She complicates a global economic history of the bark by recovering the contingent cultural practices that were used to cure an imprecise condition. Admirably nuanced, researched across languages, and beautifully written, this is global history at its best today.' Sujit Sivasundaram, University of Cambridge 'Building on extensive research in archives and libraries across various continents, A Singular Remedy follows the pathways of how cinchona and the stories and practices associated with it travelled and were shared across epistemic systems, medical traditions, tastes, social divides, and religious beliefs.' Miruna Achim, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City 'Almost half a century ago, the great French historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie alerted us to the 'microbal unification of the world'. That lesson has been brought home to drastic effect during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. In her learned and sparkling study of the global career of cinchona, Stefanie Ganger tells a counter-story: the unification of much of the world through a 'singular' medicinal substance.' Jurgen Osterhammel, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies 'Ganger follows cinchona down an astonishing range of paths, demonstrating that this was a quintessentially global product of the age of revolutions, but nevertheless keeps the Andes and its forests, peoples and coercive labour regimes in central view. She complicates a global economic history of the bark by recovering the contingent cultural practices that were used to cure an imprecise condition. Admirably nuanced, researched across languages, and beautifully written, this is global history at its best today.' Sujit Sivasundaram, University of Cambridge Author InformationStefanie Gänger is Professor of Modern History at Heidelberg University, Germany. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |